by Susan Rowe [courtesy of Blog for America]

UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? is a seven-part documentary produced by California Newsreel and aired nationally on PBS in late March and early April 2008.  This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. It's about why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner in the first place. UNNATURAL CAUSES sheds light on mounting evidence of how inequities in our lives - the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy, the neighborhoods we lives in - can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses.